Macmillan Audio (formerly Audio Renaissance) has covertly posted an interview with technothrillerist Douglas Preston talking about his new novel Blasphemy – part of the plot for which sounds eerily similar to Bill DeSmedt’s Singularity. Have a listen |M3U|.
Posted by Jesse Willis
Hour of the Wolf, a radio program on WBAI 99.5, has a couple of speculative fiction interviews with authors like Lucius Shepard, Chris Barzak, and Richard Bowes that you can stream. Sorry, no mp3 downloads. You can check out their listing here.
On the side that you can download, they had a 9-hour special last December 1, 2007. Here’s the breakdown of the show:
“The Star Pit” written and read by Samuel Delaney. |MP3|
New York Review of Science Fiction Reading event at the South St. Seaport featuring Samuel Delaney. |MP3|
A recreation of two scenes from the original “The Star Pit” radio drama that includes Jim Freund and Lois Kagan Mingus. |MP3|
An interview with Ursula K. le Guin. |MP3|
Posted by Charles Tan
The Sci Phi Show has a radio play of Mike Resnick’s short story “The Pale Thin God”. Here is the |MP3|.
Subscribe to the podcast via this feed:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheSciPhiShow
Posted by Charles Tan
Interested in hearing what “The world’s foremost expert on Lovecraft” (S.T. Joshi) has to say about old Howard Phillips? You’ll need iTunes installed, if you’ve got it then follow these steps carefully:
1. Go HERE.
2. Click on ‘Launch SUNY Cortland iTunes.’
3. In the new window, click on the ‘I Have iTunes’ button (because, admit it, you do).
4. Wait until the ‘Launch application’ option appears, then select it.
5. Let the iTunes Store load.
6. Click on ‘SUNY Cortland Memorial Library’ on the lower right.
7. Click on ‘Get.’
Reflections On Lovecraft
By S.T. Joshi
1 AAC File – Approx. 56 Minutes [LECTURE]
Provider: SUNY Cortland Memorial Library
Created: 2007
via [Papers Falling From An Attic Window]
Posted by Jesse Willis
At Lakeshore, Jay Lake has a recording of his bar interview with Ken Scholes and Frank Wu. He describes the experience as “In this mercifully brief podcast we discuss the human body, the nature of humor and current and upcoming work.” Here’s the |MP3|.
Subscribe to the podcast via this feed:
http://www.jlake.com/podcasts/lakeshore_audio.xml
Posted by Charles Tan
I’m a sucker for pretty much anything Lovecraft, and judging from the stats for our site a good number of you are too. Which means we’ll all be pleased that I spotted these two Lovecraft items on the Internet Archive the other day. Curious, I traced them back to the source. It turns out that Marlo Dianne, an SF writer and blogger is responsible, she’s got these and more, including some of her own stories over on her Forbidden Dragon blog. First up a poem…
“Despair”
By H.P. Lovecraft; Read by Marlo Dianne
1 |MP3| – Approx. 2 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Forbidden Dragon
Published: 2007
Published in 1922 as a six part serial, Herbert West: Reanimator is a classic story of Science Fiction and Horror by H. P. Lovecraft. Atmosphere, language, and science blend effortlessly, timeless, in this gruesome tale of a doctor of death.
Herbert West: Reanimator
By H.P. Lovecraft; Read by Marlo Dianne
6 MP3s – [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Forbidden Dragon
Published: 2006
Convinced that death is merely mechanical failure, and that they can find a chemical mechanism to reboot the machine, West and our nameless narrator, are on the hunt for bodies–the fresher, the better. Through graveyards and laboratories, they want to find death, chase it, trap it, prod it, and defeat it. But when you chase something to within arm’s reach, it can reach back…
Part 1 – From the Dark |MP3|
Part 2 – The Plague-Daemon |MP3|
Part 3 – Six Shots By Moonlight |MP3|
Part 4 – The Scream of the Dead |MP3|
Part 5 – The Horror from the Shadows |MP3|
Part 6 – The Tomb-Legions |MP3|
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